EDC 430 F15 WK09 - 2015-11-09

Goal(s) for Class

• Develop a lesson sequence for our units that fosters active learning.

Activities

• Opening
  • Game of School?
  • Week's Resources - See our shared notebook.
• Lesson plan walkthrough
  • Topic?
  • Performance expectation?
  • Phenomena that Ss explain
  • Activities and artifacts?
  • Assessment plans?
  • NGSS: Planning for NGSS-friendly teaching.
• Break
• Worksession: Unit Plans
  • Create unit plan overview documents using template from our shared notebook.
  • Ref: Unit plans from 2013
  • Develop sequence of lessons.
  • Share out.

Homework

• Observation
  • Observe/Reflect Entry #5
• Reading
  • Krajcik: Developing materials to teach NGSS
• Research
  • Explore Edutopia, TEDTalks, or The Science Teacher, Educational Leadership, or Pi Delta Kappan to locate and summarize at least TEN MORE articles on one of these topics:
    • Motivating students
    • Passionate Teaching
    • Project-based Teaching
    • Growth vs Fixed Mindset
    • Intrinsic vs Extrinsic Motivation
    • Metacognition - Teaching Thinking Skills
    • 21st Century Skills
    • Teaching science to ELLs
    • NGSS: Science and Engineering Practices
    • NGSS: Cross Cutting Themes
    • NGSS: Core Disciplinary Ideas
    • Classroom Questioning: Suggested Reference from Edutopia
• Writing
  • Develop another lesson to move your unit plan forward.

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